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RSA: Surviving a Hacker Attack

Art Coviello, executive chairman of RSA Security, on hacking threats and how companies should think about cybersecurity.

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... I ... we need a new approach and mall security we call it an intelligence driven more ... and it's based on risk it's based on new tolls ... their behavior based and predictive ... it's also based actually ... on a big data applications being able to gather lots and lots of data that's actually in your enterprise ... and being able to to drop ... meeting from the conclusions Cinven correlations so that you can spot an attack in progress and ... can do a better job protecting it and respond ... I think it all depends I can speak for every every company I didn't ... if an attack on him ... has the potential ... to hurt somebody else ... and you likely have an obligation ... to disclose ... if an attack on you ... might be a source of ... of of embarrassment ... but nothing is lost ... then perhaps you don't need to disclose ... you might want to disclose it so that others weren't you might want to share information ... with like always area clearly marked was ... clearly and strongly ... recommends ... that the companies ... do that ... but what was then and ... only security will ... will enter into nondisclosure ... agreements with you ... aam and and ultimately ... for your shareholders ... you have a responsibility if you think you've suffered in an economic loss to ... the US ... first ... that some of the technology we had deployed ... and they could spot anomalies ... high in network traffic ... allowed us to see these attackers one a little bit too late to stop them from actual trading some information from us ... but for the most part ... we were pretty much right on top of the attack ... so since that time ... we developed significantly more powerful capability ... to spot these catered patterns to spot the fake noises ... that are actually an attack and we would just fructose those technologies marketed ... to this eighteen months ... to develop and on top of what we already had ... know the the ... not impossible ... but ... creating a destructive attack physically destructive attack which is what comes to my mind when your side ... of the ... isthe is a very ... is ... very unlikely of them ... based on ... based on ... the situation ... where do I ... aam is is ... the ... the trend ... from intrusion based attacks ... the path to disrupt the tax and in between is something called the disruptive effects ... and it's been widely reported in the press ... that these distributed denial of service attacks and wind ... up affecting ... the major banks and in us and it appears highly likely ... that a nation that sponsors terrorists behind these attacks ... see don't have to have a Pearl